Anne Holland

As the comment storm sparked by Folio’s story wondering if RBI ever meant to sell the magazines it’s shuttered this month indicates, several publishers have wanted to buy RBI titles. But their emails and/or calls weren’t returned. I’m one of them. And I know several more who’ve reached out to me personally, as well as several who complained on other private industry email discussion groups. The flurry of handraising makes me wonder if this was all a…

As revealed today in The Wrap’s WaxWord column , that media investor Jimmy Finkelstein, who made his fortune in part by founding and selling off the National Law Journal, is playing his court-them-and-dump-them game again. In the past he came close to acquiring New York magazine and Thompson Educational Publishing (in fact news stories in 2004 reported the Thompson acquisition as a done deal) but then backed off. His newest dumpee is the blog iwantmedia.com…

Normally, I’d expect anywhere from 7-17% of sales for a paid content b2b product to be made to customers outside the US. That’s based on a bazillion years of real-life experience. (OK, not a bazillion, I’m still in my 40s, but you get the picture.) However, so far 34% of the customers for our new Subscription & Membership Site Benchmark are international. It’s a clean split between Canadians and Europeans. What does that mean for the site…